Chuck Shute Podcast

Omar Doom (Inglorious Basterds, Deathproof)

June 29, 2022 Omar Doom Season 4 Episode 258
Chuck Shute Podcast
Omar Doom (Inglorious Basterds, Deathproof)
Show Notes Transcript

Omar Doom is an actor, musician and artist.  He's most well known for his roles in several Quentin Tarantino films including Deathproof, Inglorious Basterds, and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.  He is also working on his own movie projects and performs electronic industrial music under the name "Straight Razor."  This was a really fun episode and Omar's got great stories about Tarantino & Eli Roth, music and more! 

00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Guns 'N Roses & Aerosmith 
02:40 - Family Upbringing 
07:18 - Musical Background 
09:40 - Current Musical Sound 
19:25 - Upcoming Movie Projects 
20:15 - Quentin Tarantino & Deathproof 
27:25 - Inglorious Basterds 
30:40 - Eli Roth & Hostel 
32:35 - Stanley Kubrick & Noel Gallagher 
35:50 - Stand Up to Cancer Charity 
36:40 - Outro 

Omar Doom website:
https://omardoom.com

Stand Up to Cancer website:
https://standuptocancer.org

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http://chuckshute.com

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Chuck Shute:

Omar Dube is my guest today and you've seen him in a bunch of the Tarantino films. My favorite being Inglorious Basterds, where spoiler alert him and Eli Roth kill Hitler. Very cool scene. Besides acting, he also does a writing for movies and he wants to do it all with writing, directing and scoring the movies like John Carpenter director of Halloween, and he has a lot of background in music actually. He plays piano violin, drums guitar, he sings and he makes electronic music under the name straight razor. He's got new music out right now. The latest one is called volume two. Volume One is also available. And this music is like electronic, but it's industrial and great music for a soundtrack. He's already had one song placed with a horror movie and we're going to talk about all this right now. Don't go anywhere let's do it. Omar doom. This is exciting. I'm jealous of a lot of things that you've done. But one of the first things I gotta bring up your first concert, Guns and Roses and Aerosmith. Tell me about that.

Omar Doom:

Yes. Okay. That was about 8788 ish. So I'm about 11 or 12 years old. And I was a Guns and Roses freak. When appetite destruction for destruction came out. You know, I had posters on my wall. Axl Rose was my hero. And they were coming to play at the spectrum and Philadelphia and I lived about an hour from there. Eastern Pennsylvania, near Allentown. And they were opening up for Aerosmith. And so I begged my dad to take us there, me and my one friend. And he did it. And we got there. I remember, we were like two songs too. Later, once we got there. The first time they were playing, it's so easy. And I heard it in the parking lot. And I started running. Everyone was running to the to the gates everyone was just like swarming, like ants, all the people that were a little bit late. Oh my god, I got in there. We were sitting like, probably on the side up a little bit. And, you know, it was very vulgar show. I remember my dad just going like this. Like, so discussed it. He loved Aerosmith, though.

Chuck Shute:

That's cool that he would let you to go to because he's like, it isn't your delegate doctor. And I don't know, I just hear things of Indian families are more strict about things like that, or I guess maybe not.

Omar Doom:

Yeah, well, my family was a little different. My parents were very involved in the arts, music, you know, they weren't opera members. And they always push the arts on me taking me to plays and stuff. And and they knew how important music was to me because that's what I was playing all the time in a band and everything already by this by this point. And I mean, I guess I gotta end to I mean, you're right. It is a surprising that they would have taken pizza that.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, I just do you have you? Are you familiar with Ghostface? Comedy, the comedy troupe or whatever?

Omar Doom:

No, I've seen their name. Yeah, it's

Chuck Shute:

like they have a spade like the guy from The Daily Show. What's his name? Hasan? Minaj? Or whatever? Yeah, I love him. Yeah, that's like him. And then this comedian that I followed from Seattle Fahim. Anwar. And so they always, like, do it that like, I didn't learn I learned a lot about Middle Eastern culture from that from Ghostface. And like, just like, you know, like, how the Indian culture and Middle Eastern like how they raise their kids. And like, you know, it's very strict about, it seems like they want their kids to be doctors and things like that. So I think that's, that's kind of interesting to learn about the different cultures. So yeah, I heard that your family did they take you to like it was like, once a week, they would take you to some sort of artistic kind of thing.

Omar Doom:

It wasn't once a week, but just in response to what you just said about parents wanting their kids to be doctors. That is definitely what my parents wanted for me, or isn't Oh, really? Okay.

Chuck Shute:

Even though they would take you to see music like this is a hobby, you're going to be a doctor.

Omar Doom:

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That was the what my dad mostly was like that. I completely understand why he would come from that perspective. You know, he wanted me to be able, you don't wanna have to worry about me financially, he wanted me to be able to live on my own. And, you know, even he, he came from, you know, somewhere where we he had to study to work his way out of his, you know, out of Kashmir and go to medical school and you get the opportunity to come to America and you know, and then you want your the same for your son, you know, or your your children. So I get it, but it's You know, I don't think they expected for me to become as as American as I did, I guess. But I mean, they brought me up here, I don't know, how they, you know, couldn't be surprised. But I again, I get that too. But, ya

Chuck Shute:

know, it's interesting like that. So one of the community comedians, I fall from that go face for him, like, his parents are like, you're gonna be like, you have to get a doctorate or be a dentist. The only thing that they would pay for was engineering. That was the lowest amount of schools. So he's like, alright, I'll do engineering. And then we'll do comedy on the side. And he's like, same thing as you. He's like, I get it, I get why they did that. He's like, I'm glad. You know, they understand what they don't want to pay for a theater degree. But you know, now he's doing professional comedy and acting and all that stuff. So I think I understand that I understand that mentality. There's so many people think of many people who don't make it. And they get these liberal arts degrees that and then you're like, why did you spend all this money on school that and then you're not even using it?

Omar Doom:

Well, by 12th grade, I had gotten my parents on my side. They, they saw how serious I was about what I was doing. I was making paintings a lot. You know, I was I went to school for fine arts Parsons for painting. And you know, they paid for that. And I ended up I ended up being able to do a year in Paris at their campus and study painting there. And so yeah, I mean, again, I gotta be grateful for that as well that they did put me through art college. That's really

Chuck Shute:

cool. I don't think I've seen your art. I guess. I haven't seen your art. Is it on your social media? Your website? I don't know if I saw it.

Omar Doom:

There's some art there. There's some out there. I'm gonna be making some more art and probably have a show. In the future.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, that'd be cool. Who did the cover of your first album? I told him one. You did that one. Yeah. That's fucking cool. I love that one that was really cool with the skull and like how it's like, I love that kind of shit. My girlfriend I think you know, the same way. Like you'd love schools. My girlfriend's always giving me shit. She's like, you'd love skulls. I'm like I do.

Omar Doom:

I mean, how can I mean it's, it's right here. Yes, we are.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, so So Guns and Roses, your first concert and then Metallica, second then. So you listen to Slayer and stuff. Then you get into the punk thing? And then you play drums? What's that came before metal? Well, punk came first. Yeah. Okay, so that's when you were playing drums and you play drums in a punk cover band, and then guitar and then singing? So you learned at all? Yes. Well, I

Omar Doom:

started with piano. That's what kind of helped me with everything. Fine, you know, starting in second grade classical piano. And from there, you know, once you once you've learned kind of how music works with piano, it's, it's easier to pick up instruments. I've taught myself everything pretty much.

Chuck Shute:

Were you did you like piano? Or were you good at it?

Omar Doom:

At the time. You know, I didn't like having to practice. You know, I wanted to go out and ride my bike or skateboard or be with my friends, you know. So it was a struggle to get me to actually play. So the first thing is I want to go back and do it again. Now, I would like them, I want to study classical piano. And that's probably going to happen in the future. But I just realized that recently that I was gonna circle back on that. But yeah, so back then it was kind of hard. You know, for my parents. I quit, you know, in a few years because I just don't like I want to play guitar. I want to play drums. You know, I want to play rock and roll. So it was I was kind of rebelling, I guess.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah.

Omar Doom:

Sorry, I was playing violin as well. And so I would turn it down into chip play it like a guitar. Oh, so

Chuck Shute:

what? How old did it or how long did it take before your parents would let you play drums and guitar and all that other stuff?

Omar Doom:

Oh, they let me throw out the whole thing. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I was first I was banging on things in my room. I created like a cardboard drum set. And they didn't pay for that though. I had to work to buy myself a drum set by mowing lawns. And I had a paper route.

Chuck Shute:

Nice. Yeah, that's like, that's what most kids had to do like, or babysitting. That was another thing that was more for for girls. I guess.

Omar Doom:

I started my sis my older sister had when she was three years older me she had a paper route and I was too young to have a route I think I was nine or something or 10 So I had to use her name and then deliver so I can make money to buy a drum set.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, wow, that's cool. So then you get into the like the industrial music which I kind of wonder like what happened why I always thought that was going to be the future like Nine Inch Nails and ministry and thrill kill cold front 242 Although that kind of stuff. And that's kind of what led you to the music that you're that you're in now.

Omar Doom:

Yeah, pretty much but also I was I hung out a lot in the club where was like, I love techno house, you know. And so I went out a lot. And just between dance music and metal and punk and in all the 60s rock, I love so much vinyl right here far we're the leaders, you know. And I'm kind of seeing if I confuse everything in some way. But I want to keep straight razor as pretty tech now. And then I'm probably going to use the Omar Doom name for a separate project.

Chuck Shute:

Oh, what's and what's that going to be?

Omar Doom:

I don't know why I just released that information. But yes, I

Chuck Shute:

got it on the podcast. I can cut that out if you want me to.

Omar Doom:

That's fine. You got me talking. I'm gonna sing on all of it.

Chuck Shute:

Oh, okay. Yeah. What's that? Okay, no, I like I like the I'm not a big fan of like, EDM, but I think your stuff is more. I wouldn't call it EDM. It's not dance music. It's industrial. But I mean, I'm explaining me like if I go to a concert and listen to this, um, people are not dancing, are they?

Omar Doom:

Well, I play a lot of dance music at my shows too, because I have some faster stuff. I have remixes as well. But you are correct. There are moments when people aren't sure if they should dance or not. One thing that I've experienced that is people most of the time are just looking at me. They're not they're just facing me like it's a rock show. But once I get some more faster tracks going, I can start to see them start moving more. My music already is kind of going back to my took to the I started more tech unknown. It's kind of going back more to that now. So it'll probably be a lot more dancing in the future to

Chuck Shute:

Okay, yeah, cuz I like when I'm listening to your stuff. I'm just totally picturing. Like, I need visuals. Like, obviously the song lady midday is in the horror movie already. But the first song on the new album is called was it called enemy? Yeah, that one. I mean, that sounds legitimately like the opening for a horror movie. Like, exactly, it's built for that.

Omar Doom:

I feel like I'm trying to do that with all my songs. But that one just came out. I haven't even sent it to licensing people or so people who are making our movies don't really know about it yet. So that could happen.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, so yeah, how did you have somebody like an agent or somebody that does that? Or do you have to send all that stuff yourself? Or?

Omar Doom:

Oh, the whole business side of things. There are people that help. Yeah,

Chuck Shute:

yeah. Okay, because, but that is like, that's so competitive. But at the same time, if you want to make any money off your music or get recognition, it's almost like you have to have placement in those TV and movies and commercials and things.

Omar Doom:

Usually, they find you really, unless you're a musician that's making music specifically that isn't sending out to people all the time. Like that's your job. But with with me, it's they've for spree, the movie spree with Joe Carey. Where my track actually plays for the whole entirety is like a five minute song and I played that main titles. In the beginning, I was really surprised by that. Which spree I had someone who could just send it out to a lot of people and they got a response from one of them. And that's pretty much how it happened.

Chuck Shute:

Okay. Yeah, cuz that just seems like I mean, I don't know. You have other things obviously, you have the acting in the clothing and stuff so musics not your mate but I know for a lot of the musicians I interview like, they they can they fit there have a hard time making money off of making a living off of making music. So it's like they have to get it in these placements. movies and TVs?

Omar Doom:

Yeah. Yeah, it definitely helps a lot. I mean, I when I had my clothing line, I was getting a lot of movie placement with that. Yeah, that was actually cool. But with this, you know, everybody, I mean, everybody wants their song in a movie, you know, just a friend of mine named Corvette. And it's not in his unreal remixes album, but he you know, he's garnering a lot of fame right now. Because his song Tesla it was in the Batman. And he has just shot up pretty fast. Because it's not gotten million point five years already.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, that seems to be a big way to do it. Or I mean, I guess stuff can just go viral on Tiktok and YouTube and all that other stuff, too. But yeah, that's also really competitive. Have you thought of doing like collaborations with straight razor with like some of the rock and metal musicians like Trent Reznor, or Rob Zombie or al Jorgensen from ministry?

Omar Doom:

Well, yeah, if you're talking about those people, yes. Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna say no to any of those people. Yeah,

Chuck Shute:

you haven't, like reached out to them or whatever. I mean, you would be open to it.

Omar Doom:

I would definitely be open to it. Especially since I mean, Trent and I are both scoring as well. You know, but you know, he has his own thing going with Atticus and you know, I haven't really reached out to anyone for for for collaborating yet. I do have a remix album in the works right now of of my songs from volume two. But I haven't collaborated yet. I've talked about it with a couple people. Okay. It might have been some of the people that are in the room example. Okay, yeah, cuz I

Chuck Shute:

just think that would be an interesting, melty. Like I said, I thought that was gonna be Nine Inch Nails and stuff. I thought that was going to be the future of rock and then it seemed like it kind of died off. And then now you've got more like the, I don't know, I kind of like the shine downs and those kinds of bands is kind of like, I feel like rock just kind of stopped, like evolving in like the early 2000s.

Omar Doom:

Yeah, well, I think people changed, you know. But I feel like the this whole scene that you're we're talking about this industrial kind of techno scene, it's always been kind of a sub genre. It's always been, you know, a kind of a niche genre anyway, people that were times where people like, oh, it's gonna hit big this year, it's gonna hit pick this year, and anyone just didn't. But I mean, I don't really think about that. Because I don't really find myself in that genre really too much. You know what I mean? It's it's kind of hard to define where I am. But I'm probably more towards the technical side.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, I know what it sounds like. If you have some other songs that are more dance oriented. I feel like this this stuff that I listened to there wasn't a lot of dance. There was parts where it kind of got lighter. And I was like, no, no, no, go back to the darker because I liked when it was dark. And like, kind of how I was like, Oh, this is cool. I feel like I don't know, like, is this bad to say I almost want to like have like an edible or something. And just like I want some visuals. I just want to like really take it in.

Omar Doom:

Yeah, I mean, I love making visuals for my for my music. I mean, I've been making lots of promo videos, where I use movies, jello films, which are horror movies from the 60s 70s. European, mostly their slasher films. That's actually where American slashers came from. And one of the tropes in those films is you have a black glove killer with maybe in the end, the weapon of choice for a lot of them was a straight razor. And so that's where my the name straight razor comes from. And I've been using a lot of those images in my promotional materials.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, I saw some of your stuff on like, tick tock. It was cool. You had the video with the cats in the cemetery for the that's from the first Alma is it? How do I say that name? It bliss?

Omar Doom:

Endless. Yeah. So yeah, that cat lives at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Really? Yes. I've gone there and hung out with it numerous times. We follow each other on Instagram. We're kind of

Chuck Shute:

that is a that's a cool Summit. That's from the I didn't know it's fun to the Hollywood Forever. Cemetery. That's a really fascinating place. I mean, there's so many famous people there.

Omar Doom:

Yeah. Yeah, I would love to be there. I mean, I wouldn't love to be there.

Chuck Shute:

Not now, like maybe 60 years or something. Right.

Omar Doom:

That'd be nice. Yeah, yeah.

Chuck Shute:

So you also said you wanted to conduct like an orchestra of your songs that that would be interesting to hear that too.

Omar Doom:

I was pretentious enough to say that. That would be great. Just because I'm always like, you know, with my bands, like I was teaching everyone how to play their instruments and like their songs. And I kind of fell into that role really fast as a young kid. Yeah. You know, and even on stage, I was making sure everyone was playing everything. Right. And so that just feels like something that would be fun to do. You know, having said that, I'm not sure what a conductor does.

Chuck Shute:

I feel like it just go like this the whole time. I feel like it's really easy. Like I could do it. Probably. Yeah, I haven't I have musical teacher friends that are probably gonna hate me for saying that because, yeah, but no, I think there's probably more. It's like speed tempo. I'm sure there's a lot of things to the science of it. But okay, well, yeah. So we got to talk we got to talk movies and acting You're still acting right? You still you're writing some movies I

Omar Doom:

hear. I have movies are a couple of horror movies. I did write co star Doom with my old friend Michael Bacall, who was in some of those movies with me to prove Inglorious Basterds. He's also a writer. And there are horror movies, horror comedies and I have new ideas that I want to tackle. Whatever you want to do is kind of combine all these things that I'm doing into a movie where I write direct score. You know, just Carla, John John Carpenter, hmm, you know, one of my heroes, so I kind of want to, that's the way I want to be as one of my goals.

Chuck Shute:

Now that's really cool. That's a wow, that would be. So do you would like obviously you're friends with or you were you're maybe not as close now but with Quentin Tarantino, do you run some of this stuff through him like some of these ideas they see give you advice.

Omar Doom:

He gave me advice in the beginning when I was writing. You know, he was he was It was basically the first time I told him, he was like, tell your story. And tell it well. That was his first advice to me.

Chuck Shute:

Easier said than done. But when he said, Well,

Omar Doom:

I mean, he really it was like, well, like, because he's a natural storyteller. You know, just the whole art of storytelling is the fun part for him.

Chuck Shute:

Well, his I think the thing with Tarantino that I love I mean, obviously he builds so well, the tension to the there's always like that violent scene that's, you know, it's coming. And that's what I love. But also his dialogue is I mean, that's he's got to have the best dialogue of any screenwriter ever. You got to read Death Proof, you get to read you get this script. I mean, what are you thinking when you're when you're reading this dialogue that it will in all his movies, really, but especially that one because I was the first one.

Omar Doom:

He's just masterful writer. When I first got Death Proof. I wasn't, there was no talk of me being in it or anything. So I just got a hold of it. He sent it to someone who I know. He didn't even send it to me. He sent it to someone I know. I got a

Chuck Shute:

character named Omar.

Omar Doom:

I know. So should I get a hold of the script? I started reading it and just loving it. He had like a color cover on it. And at that time, Mickey Rourke was supposed to play the main character, and so his name was. But when I started reading that, I mean, when I saw my name in there, and it says, Omar I was I flipped out. Because we all know that he sometimes name some of his characters or people in his life, or you know, everything means something in his movies. You know, it comes from somewhere. And so I was like, Oh, my God, he named something after me. And I just thought to myself, Oh, my God, this can't just be him naming attributes. I have to be in this movie, you know. And so I hit up someone that works with him, they jewels, and I was like, Oh, my God, I gotta tell him that I'm gonna read for this role. And I will knock it out of the park, I promise is going to be great. She said that to him. She comes back to me. And she's like, I said it to him verbatim. said everything. You said, see what happens, right? I get a call. I get he said, I'm allowed to not him. He didn't call me someone called me and said that I could read for it. But I could send in a tape because I was in New York City. Right. And so I mean, I broke all the rules. First of all, making your audition tape I, you know, there was like, I set up a bar scene in the background, there was like a title menu with the music behind it. And, you know, the soundtrack and it was, you know, you send this to anyone else who just don't laugh. But I thought, you know, he's very unconventional guy. You know, he does things the way he wants to do them. No matter what, there's no rules with Quentin Tarantino, you know what I mean? So I thought, you know, I could take a chance on that. And it turned out he did like it.

Chuck Shute:

Well, and he cuz he is a fan of you already. Like you guys have the friendship. And he said, I mean, this has got to be the best best compliment coming from anyone ever. He said that you're cool. And you are super cool guy like you. Quinn Tarantino thinks you're cool. So you're already kind of in right.

Omar Doom:

That's true. He said I was legitimately cool. It's not a bad stamp to have on your resume.

Chuck Shute:

Is that like when that when you met him? I mean, you kind of had to play it cool, right? I mean, you can't fanboy out over Quentin Tarantino. Is that why he respected you? Or thought you were so cool? Or were you just not even a fan? Is that why he

Omar Doom:

was definitely a fan? Yeah, most wrote me off. When I first met him. I thought I was too fat too much. But um I kind of see to two people. It's like when I'm with them. There's that guy? Who's my friend. Right? And then there's the guy that there's Tarantino, the guy that makes movies. You know, there's Quentin, and there's Tarantino. I kind of have them separated a little bit.

Chuck Shute:

Really see because I think you guys like watch you had this is like my dream. By the way. This is like on my bucket list. You had like movie nights with Quentin Tarantino. Like that is amazing. He's into me because I feel like you can't really separate it like even though he's a director and he's directing. Even he's a fan first he worked at a video store is a huge movie fan. So like just watching a movie with him would be so cool because he's probably showing you movies that are like these, like cool, like cult indie movies, and probably has really cool like, takes on them and such.

Omar Doom:

Yeah. He definitely introduced me to a lot of cool movies. And in terms of your question about watching movies with him, it is a lot of fun, because he's having a lot of fun, you know, and his energy is contagious. His you know, his love for cinema is, you know, we all know how big that is.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, you guys watched this movie. I don't think I've even heard of this movie, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. And he would say that you look like Bob Dylan in that movie.

Omar Doom:

You reminded me of him a little bit. And so when the so the trailer for that is something that we've watched a lot together. And he also you can see it at the new bet his theater, that where he plays, trailers and movies as well. But we would always watch that trailer and there would be a part where it says, you know, starring Bob Dylan, and they would show a shot of him. And he would look at me and go, Oh, my God. And obviously, I saw like sparkles when he whenever he would do. What is happening? Yeah, but it was it was such an endearing thing of him to do. It was really nice. And he did it multiple times. He was great. This was like 20 years ago, though. Okay. Yeah. So you know, I haven't hung out with him like that a long time. Yeah.

Chuck Shute:

So does he feel he thinks Death Proof is his worst movie though? Because I think that's one of his best. I mean, no, I wouldn't say it's the best but I really liked that one. Is it just because it's kind of campy and stuff or?

Omar Doom:

I don't know if he said it's his worst movie. Maybe out of all of them. He places it at the bottom. Worst is a strong word.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah. But even the worst Quentin Tarantino movie is like, better than 99.999% of all movies. So

Omar Doom:

yeah, just because you have to, you know, run everything from one to nine. Doesn't mean nine is bad. Right?

Chuck Shute:

No, totally. Well, I think I think Inglorious Basterds? I mean, that's almost like a tie for the best and the GAO one and Pulp Fiction those. I feel like Inglorious Basterds almost, I feel like it's almost better in a way because I haven't seen it as much as Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is a little bit. You know, I've seen it so many times where I haven't seen Inglorious Basterds as many, but I rewatched it a few months ago, kind of that's just such a great film. So explain the process, like he brings you guys together for that movie, and he makes you watch Nazi propaganda films to kind of get you in the mood for this, like, roll?

Omar Doom:

Yeah, well, first of all the best years the eight bastards got into town and Berlin, and we're all meeting each other. And he wanted to, you know, just remind us of, you know, the seriousness of the horrors, you know, that occurred of why we were there. You know, what we were fighting for. And he showed us propaganda videos, where, you know, the Germans were talking about Jews in the worst ways possible. And like, you know, where they were teaching people how bad they were, you know, and it was horrifying to watch, you know, and it was heartbreaking to watch. And so, you know, the room was silent. When we were watching this was a very small room actually put us in and it was projected with a projector actually. And you know, it, I guess he wanted us to make sure that we knew that we're not really there. I mean, we're there to, to work. We're not really there to have fun. You know what I mean? And this is a really serious topic that we're working with. It's just a reminder.

Chuck Shute:

Hmm. But so the scene with where you're saying your names and explain because that one kind of was a fun way scene in a way because we're didn't you weren't you guys brought in just to be off camera for Christoph. And then you're all joking around. And then Quinton is like, Alright, I'm gonna relate this we're gonna we're gonna shoot this and then that was the scene that made it. No,

Omar Doom:

I think you're thinking about something that happened once upon a time in Hollywood. But that that was written I think, yeah.

Chuck Shute:

Oh, okay. Maybe Yeah, I thought I thought I heard Eli Roth talking about I thought he was talking about how he was talking about that scene. Maybe I'm maybe I'm mixing it up. There was

Omar Doom:

stuff that was off the cuff. You're right. Okay. I want you to sit sometimes when he's directing. He starts throwing in lines into the script as he's directing, so we weren't ad libbing that. They may not have been what Eli is saying is it wasn't originally supposed to be there. Yeah, it was. Oh, okay. But but we didn't make anything up. Quinton told us what to do. He was just making things up on the spot a little bit.

Chuck Shute:

Oh, okay. No, that Okay, that's interesting. So he just thought of it like right there,

Omar Doom:

where you add things when he's, you know, direct. So the thing where

Chuck Shute:

you guys are like enunciating your names? Yeah, that was on the spot.

Omar Doom:

He was like, you know, he's just telling us what to do. I mean, we barely had a script then because he had just changed at all, you know, over Christmas. So it was, you know, it was pretty loose. I mean, he had everything he wanted to do, but it wasn't really mapped out like the rest of the script. But

Chuck Shute:

yeah, that's cool. Like, I'm just sort of like jealous. That like, not only Quinton but also Brad Pitt and Eli Roth. Are you a fan of him? Because I'm a huge fan of his directing, obviously, too, but he's a great actor as well.

Omar Doom:

Yeah. Okay. Check this out. When I was in New York once, and went to opening night of hostel with Quentin. Okay. And the, the audience was, it was, first of all sold out. You know, there was a huge crowd, we were right in the middle towards the front. And it was an experience watching this movie for the first time with this huge audience. People were just like, closing their eyes. You know, it was I mean, I was I was, you know, I loved it. I was instantly a fan of Eli Ross.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, me too. At first. Yeah. Did you know what it was about? Because one of the first time I saw it was just a buddy throw it on, on like the DVD player. And I was like, What is this movie about? And like the opening where you're seeing the guy, you're thinking of like a serial killer, and then when the plot is actually revealed, it's just like, you it's just like, jaw dropping, like so brilliant.

Omar Doom:

Yeah, I love the flow of it, the pace of it, you know, of going on vacation, and then you know, what a great movie.

Chuck Shute:

It's based on kind of based on some true story sort of like, there's might be some things like that over in Europe.

Omar Doom:

I mean, I'm gonna have to assume I'm sure there's things like that here.

Chuck Shute:

Ah, that's crazy shit. Yeah, that's, I think that's what makes it so that makes a good horror movies. Like, it could be real, like, just a facet ability.

Omar Doom:

That makes things so much scarier.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah, is that like the horror movies that you're writing? Is it similar to that?

Omar Doom:

The ones that I wrote are a little different than that. They're more comedies, but really their horror, but there's a lot of comedy in

Chuck Shute:

well, so besides the Tarantino movie, did you also I haven't seen this one. But you played you played Stanley Kubrick in the movie? The maestro, is that right?

Omar Doom:

Yes, that was a cameo. I mean, that was a very brief. I'm just there for a little bit. Yeah.

Chuck Shute:

But that seems like an odd casting job because you look nothing like Stan Stanley Kubrick is like a large unless it was like a young student. Like I don't Yeah, it was very young. Okay. I was gonna say because when I think of Stanley Kubrick I think of the older like, fat bald bearded guy and I'm just like, this is interesting casting job. So that was more like a cameo. Did you also act in the tell me about this working with Noah Gallagher from Oasis? You weren't you were in his music videos.

Omar Doom:

I was I was in a couple of them, I think. Yeah. That was a lot of fun. He's a cool guy. You know, I didn't get to hang out with him too much. But that was a that was those are directed by a friend of mine. Mine named Mike Bruce. He's the one who recruited me for those. And he directed both of them. Actually, that I was in. One of them is starring Zoe bill as a boxer. I think that's called Dream on. Hmm. And I'm he put me in the audience as one of the guys that gets blood on him. From the boxing punches. It seems like a play off of raging bull. Yeah. Okay. And so when Jethro was boxing, so and then from there, I got like a more of a bigger role and another no Gallagher song, which I forgot the name. Yeah. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. That one was like a roller derby one. I mean, music videos. I don't I tend not to do them anymore, because I did a bunch of them really quickly. I mean, I'll still do like, you know, I'm not against it, but not something I've done in a while.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, gotcha. Cool. Well, it sounds like you got a lot of cool stuff in the works. The new album is out right now straight razor volume two. Volume One and two are both available on Spotify. People can listen to it. And then you do it. You're kind of in the middle of a mini tour. Are you still touring?

Omar Doom:

The mini tour just ended I have a show at in Los Angeles next Friday, July 8, at dusk bunker which is at catch one. you'll be able to get a pre release of this final. This is straight razors, volumes one and two coming out on final soon, but you can buy it at the show from me.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, do you have other merch too? Like T shirts and all that? Yeah.

Omar Doom:

patches, stickers, it's all going to be available.

Chuck Shute:

Okay. And then when are the your movies that you've written and the ones that you're going to direct all that? When are those be? We'll see the light of day. Do you have the release dates on that or?

Omar Doom:

No, no, you'll be the first enough.

Chuck Shute:

Okay, awesome. We have to come back and we'll talk about those who promote the movies as well. Yeah. Also your Omar Doom solo? Yeah, yeah. Okay. doom.com. All right, perfect. And then I always end with the charity. I think your publicist said Stand Up to Cancer is the one that you wanted to if people have a few extra bucks after the fire, vinyl, they can donate it to Stand Up to Cancer. Okay, is there a reason that you chose that one? Yeah. Well,

Omar Doom:

first of all, for everyone around the world, who has cancer and is suffering. And in addition to that, a couple of close people that I know that succumbed to the disease.

Chuck Shute:

Yeah. My dad had prostate cancer, luckily beat it. So but yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people that are not there's so many forms of cancer now. It's just like, yeah, we can do some research. And that's a definitely a good charity to donate to for sure. Yes.

Omar Doom:

Thank you very much for that. Yeah. Well, thank

Chuck Shute:

you for doing this. And let me fanboy out for a little bit. It's, it's been a pleasure. Yeah. A lot of fun, man. Thanks for having me. All right. Thanks, Omar. We'll see you later. Bye. Thanks again to Omar doom. So cool to chat with I love that he acts writes, does music art clothing line, just a multitalented guy, very cool to chat with someone like that. I'll have to have him back on the show. So much more to discuss and I look forward to his upcoming films. I'm sure they're gonna be great. But in the meantime, check out his music. It's available now. It's again dark and industrial stuff. And I think he got to sit back and listen, maybe with some visuals or something is great stuff though. And make sure to follow him on social media or check out his website for more information. And you can do the same for me if you like I always appreciate all your support. Have a great day and shoot for the moon.